On this week's episode of Crossing the Line, we discuss the mass shooting that took place in British Columbia, Canada, and why millennials are the smartest generation ever. Plus, Gerald and Gerald's daughter Eileen Goggin joins the show.
00:03:49.000I mean, you read these things and your heart breaks.
00:03:52.000And there's not much I can do from Texas other than what we do every day, which is try and inform and lighten you and make sure that you are equipped with the right information.
00:04:00.000And I will tell you, a lot of misinformation out there.
00:04:03.000A lot of common denominators that have been presented to you as it relates to mass shootings or the violence problems that we face here in the Western world.
00:04:22.000Gen Z has more access to information than any generation prior, and they are the first generation to be objectively dumber than generations that came before.
00:08:42.000It's so popular, clemato juice, that it's like, I think a majority, research, you can bring this up, a majority of their sales occur in Canada.
00:08:51.000They had to name it clemato so people didn't go, clam juice?
00:09:28.000And I know it's very hard to differentiate between their protests and the WNBA, but watch.
00:09:43.000So that these ice, these closeted ice weaklings have to come out at the end of the day and take these dicks out of the fence and fall asleep thinking about the dicks they fall asleep thinking about every night because they're closeted cowards.
00:12:08.000Seriously, they've saved a lot of friends that we have, because a lot of people actually happen to have been buying homes recently or refinancing.
00:12:58.000Now, I was talking about this with Lane the Brain earlier, and it's weird that this didn't catch on as far as being covered by the media, where when he first read about it, and the same thing with me, I thought it might be one of those fake news stories because someone had written about it and it was covered nowhere.
00:13:34.000Why did we not have the same reaction immediately from world leaders and posts?
00:13:38.000Why did we not have the same kind of reaction in comparison to other mass shootings?
00:13:42.000Now, we'll say this: there was some misinformation going around where people were saying, hey, this shooter was transgender and posting pictures of someone who was not the shooter.
00:13:50.000This shooter may be, at this point in time, seems likely that they're a transgender individual.
00:13:56.000But I will tell you, when you're facing an absence of information, look to how the left is treating it.
00:14:04.000And that'll be a pretty strong indicator.
00:14:06.000So if I go, okay, we don't have the information, but they're not covering it.
00:14:28.000So off the bat, for those of you who haven't been following it, shooter in British Columbia killed nine at the time of this broadcast, injured another 25.
00:14:37.000This is a really large-scale tragic one.
00:14:47.000This is one of the biggest tragedies that our province, our country, and certainly the rural town of Tumblr Ridge has ever seen.
00:14:55.000We're still triaging other victims, and I don't have updates on whether that number could rise.
00:15:06.000The scene was very dramatic, and there were multiple victims that are still being cared for.
00:15:17.000Okay, now I'm going to answer the question that I asked you earlier so you know where we're going with this.
00:15:22.000The reason why is if it is not a shooting that helps them push the narrative of gun control, that helps them push the narrative that the common denominator is easy access to guns or right-wing extremism, they try and bury it.
00:15:39.000This is the same media who has said that the greatest threat to, well, domestically, is right-wing extremists or white males, as you heard Don Lemon, people like Chris Cuomo, Brian Stelter, CNN as a whole, MSNBC, I guess it's called MS. Now, that's what you've heard them say.
00:15:56.000That's why they don't want to touch this.
00:15:58.000So, let me give you a couple of key facts, and then I'll tell you what they want you to believe, and I'll tell you what is accurate.
00:16:04.000It does seem like this shooter may have been transgender.
00:16:09.000Let me tell you why I think that's the most likely scenario.
00:16:11.000The RCMP's district commander referred not only to the shooter as a gun person, which is odd, but every part about this clip is suspicious.
00:16:22.000None of those people are the gun person.
00:16:25.000That includes the deceased gun person.
00:16:43.000And then, when you combine that with the fact that the RCMP confirmed the initial alert about the shooting, describing the shooter as a female in a dress with brown hair, well, why wouldn't they just say the woman in question, the gun woman, gun person?
00:16:58.000Could just be that they're tripping over pronouns because they don't know what to do.
00:17:17.000Juneau News, a former post-millennial editor, wrote, I just spoke to Jesse Strang's uncle, Russell, who identified Jesse as a suspected Tumblr Ridge shooter.
00:17:25.000Russell described his nephew, Jesse, as, quote, transgender.
00:17:27.000Public YouTube account belonging to Jesse also bears the trans flag and an SKS rifle.
00:17:33.000I reached out because that's what basic journalism demands: verification through primary sources.
00:17:39.000It was the only thing I could do while the police refused to verify basic details about the killer's identity.
00:17:44.000To be clear, this is different from the picture that was circulating from fake news accounts on the right trying to convince you that that person was the shooter.
00:17:52.000And the reason that this matters is because that's a person.
00:17:56.000And if it's not the same person, that's a problem.
00:18:00.000Remember when we released the Nashville Manifesto?
00:18:02.000You had people on the right saying, no, no, no, I did my due diligence.
00:18:04.000And my source says that Audrey Hale was sexually molested by his or her father.
00:18:10.000Well, the reason that that's so harmful is because there's an actual father in the real world.
00:18:16.000And if that's not true, your clickbait isn't a defense.
00:18:30.000The New York Times: Canada was reeling on Wednesday, a day after a shooter killed nine people and injured 25 others in a remote town in northeastern British Columbia, the third deadliest shooting in the country's history that comes amid a wider debate about gun control.
00:18:44.000Let me be clear: there is no wider debate about gun control in Canada.
00:18:47.000It has some of the strictest gun laws in the Western world.
00:18:54.000When you talk about bureaucracy, red tape, and arbitrary laws simply designed to infringe on your right to self-defense, you're referring to Canada.
00:19:40.000Even the supreme leader of China, Xi Xingping, had this to say.
00:19:45.000I hear about shooting in British Columbia, also known as West China, and would like to offer conduits to family and 10% discounts on Chinese car.
00:20:04.000So let's go to what they want you to believe are the common denominators and why the response has been different here from, let's say, a shooter who happened to be white in Texas.
00:21:30.000Well, the reason we're fighting about this is because this country used to have a lot of men in the country, and they wanted to be able to protect you.
00:21:37.000Your father would want to protect you.
00:21:39.000Men in this country wanted to be able to protect their family, their liberty, their freedoms, to be clear.
00:21:46.000So this idea that it's settled, more no.
00:21:50.000And then the idea that it's settled that only the United States faces mass shootings, that's not true.
00:21:55.000And we certainly aren't the only country that faces acts of mass violence, because here's the truth.
00:22:00.000Plenty of mass shootings have taken place in Canada.
00:22:03.000You could argue that Montreal is the founder of the Feast, where I was raised.
00:22:27.000I would argue that's a tougher pill to swallow because imagine you are the spouse or the father of death 18 or 19 or death 21 at hour 12 and a half.
00:22:45.000Why don't we treat that as a greater act of evil than people having the right to own firearms?
00:23:00.000And that mass shooting, I guess you wouldn't call it mass shooting because it took place over the course of 13 hours, but it is, by definition.
00:23:08.000That's what led to the ban on assault style weapons in Canada, which, by the way, if you're in the States, includes pretty much every gun that you have.
00:23:48.000Common denominator number two here is some people will point to this, and it definitely is a trend, but it is not the common denominator, but transgender shooters.
00:24:01.000There's certainly a stronger correlation with that than there would be with some of the other arguments to be made.
00:24:06.000So since 2018, there have been at least six school shootings that were committed by transgender individuals.
00:25:20.00042% of trans adults have attempted suicide.
00:25:23.000The numbers don't get better pre or post-op.
00:25:25.000The only other group of people who would have that kind of an attempted suicide rate are paranoid schizophrenics.
00:25:31.000And even then, it's probably not as high.
00:25:33.000Jews in the Holocaust, American slaves did not have attempted suicide rates that high.
00:25:37.000I don't believe that your oppression is worse than an American slave or a Jew in the Holocaust because you couldn't take a dump in your toilet of choice at Target.
00:27:04.000If you just said, hey, 42% of men attempt suicide versus women, or 42% of white men attempt suicide and have substance abuse problems, and 80% have had suicidal ideations.
00:27:21.000If you looked at any other group of people as a demographic and saw those kinds of trends, you would say this is disconcerting and would address it as a problem.
00:28:27.000The Director General of Asia has warned about a range of threats, be it anti-Semitism, the rise of right-wing extremist groups as well.
00:28:40.000And we continue to work closely with our security agencies.
00:28:44.000Now, the reason I bring up that comparison is because, like with the transgender demographic, and this doesn't mean I have to say, not all, not all, not all, not all.
00:28:52.000Was it 158 million Muslims on earth believe that violence against apostates and converts is at least sometimes justified, or was it 190-something million?
00:31:40.000So, what people used to say was a straw man, where you go, well, should we ban cars?
00:31:45.000If you don't acknowledge evil, if you don't acknowledge ideological influences, if you don't understand that good and evil exist in this world, well, you're going to, once you ban guns, you go, well, people are still committing.
00:31:55.000I guess we'll put up traffic barriers.
00:32:49.000And so if you go, our problem is gun violence, well, let's just ignore all the car attacks.
00:32:53.000Our problem is gun violence, well, let's just ignore all the Islamic terrorism.
00:32:56.000Our problem is gun violence, let's just ignore the 42% attempted suicide rate with transgender individuals and their proclivity to violence.
00:34:08.000By the way, one of the worst mass killing events ever, I believe, was in Norway.
00:34:12.000That threw off the curve for a long time where the left said you had to exclude that when dealing with mass shootings.
00:34:17.000But even in those places, the problems that they face, and if they're not already there at the precipice of the complete decline of their civil, just give them a decade or two.
00:34:31.000They are always wrong in their proposed solutions.
00:34:34.000Yeah, and I think it's even deeper than that with this because anytime you're trying to solve a problem, you want to get down to like the most common denominator, like we said, right?
00:35:38.000If the left had their way, meaning no checks and balances on abortion, it would be guaranteed, no doubt, all the way up until and including birth on demand, period, taxpayer funded.
00:35:49.000If the left had their way on guns, you wouldn't be able to own guns.
00:35:52.000People would come in with guns, ironically, to take your guns away, like a mandatory buyback in Australia, or like you saw, for example, in Canada where everything was effectively banned and they were demanded to hand them back in.
00:36:04.000If the left had their way, you wouldn't be allowed to speak out against the government, whether it's COVID, whether it's vaccines, whether it's election interference.
00:38:52.000Okay, so you think it's more evil for me to refuse to link arms with China than the fact that they are en masse drowning their daughters in bathtubs?
00:39:01.000Yeah, plus, I don't want to link arms with someone who smells like cigarettes.
00:41:43.000But because she has access to the Chinese market now, all the luxury brands in Europe, which nobody's dumb enough really to buy en masse anymore, except mostly the Chinese market, she gets those contracts now.
00:41:57.000Well, I don't know if that's how she explained it, but she did announce her decision to ski for China prior to the 2022 Olympics in Beijing.
00:42:05.000Here she is extolling the virtues of globalism.
00:42:08.000I was 15 years old at that time, and I had this tremendous support from the U.S. ski team from a moral level, from an emotional level, in the sense that when I told them that I wanted to compete for China in the upcoming Olympics, that it was to inspire young girls, it was to spread the sport, and it was to create a shared future of globalism.
00:43:22.000And somehow, in fleecing the United States, because those who, again, benefit from the capitalist system while trying to thrust leftism everywhere you go, they're happy to make her an ambassador for future United States Olympic bids.
00:43:39.000Oh, I should also note, China doesn't allow dual citizenship, so that may be a problem.
00:43:47.000Do you have to be a citizen of a country to represent in the Olympics?
00:44:13.000I want to inspire young women to also have no values, to also have, when we talk about feminism destroying the idea of duty, this is what we're talking about.
00:44:29.000No man up until, oh, no, still amongst most men today, but certainly no man up until and including most of the 20th century would have ever been held out as an ambassador or respected if they didn't have any sense of duty or honor.
00:45:20.000This is very much like a lot of these American companies who shipped, and not just companies, but politicians encouraging it and those who benefited in positions of power.
00:45:28.000We're not talking about mom and pop businesses.
00:45:30.000They shipped jobs, production to China.
00:45:54.000And there were some, obviously, there were some legislative accomplishments there.
00:45:56.000Bill Clinton actually said, so if you believe in a future of greater openness and freedom for the people of China, you ought to be for this agreement.
00:46:04.000If you believe in a future of greater prosperity for the American people, you certainly should be for this agreement.
00:46:09.000If you believe in a future of peace and security for Asia and the world, you should be for this agreement.
00:46:16.000Well, instead, 5 million manufacturing jobs left.
00:46:20.000There were all kinds of manufacturing establishments, factories, companies that have been gone forever.
00:46:25.000We've seen hundreds of thousands of fentanyl deaths, unprecedented.
00:46:29.000And it doesn't seem like China is playing any more honestly than before.
00:46:35.000I think that this is where when people talk about populism, they don't mean this is popular, you know, because populism could also, it could just be a form of socialism.
00:46:45.000What they mean is, and this has obviously been communicated as America First, and they're kind of one and the same.
00:46:51.000What we're talking about is caring enough about your fellow American to not screw them for an extra buck.
00:46:59.000It's not my place to tell a business owner what they should make or what they should collect as a salary.
00:47:06.000It is our place as a country, as a society, to say, well, we don't want these kinds of businesses and these kinds of politicians who will benefit at the cost of our well-being.
00:47:22.000We can hold people to a standard of duty.
00:47:25.000Places like, you know, Hollywood, the NBA, video game, places that have sold out the American people in order to try and get a greater share of the Chinese market, which results in what?
00:47:36.000For example, banning big tech as well, banning people who suggest that, my God, COVID may have actually been a lab leak.
00:47:44.000Did that turn out to be the most likely scenario?
00:47:46.000For example, not acknowledging Taiwan's existence.
00:47:50.000For example, pointing to China as a beacon of a growing economy.
00:50:13.000And just about every gold company in the content that they want to just tell people how bad things are and in this tumultuous time to get, you know, it's like, really?
00:50:26.000There's very few companies that we work with.
00:50:28.000And trust me, the ones that we pick, it's after years of vetting most times for these kinds of things, especially gold because there's so many shady ones out there.
00:50:35.000I will say fear is a very valuable consultant to have fear, to have a healthy fear, if it is used as a tool to come to a solution.
00:50:45.000And we've always wanted to be in the business of providing solutions.
00:50:48.000Solutions, as far as most important, what you can do in your own life.
00:50:51.000But we've also proposed policy solutions as it relates to voter ID, as it relates to actually voting period, as it relates to H-1Bs, legal immigration, illegal immigration.
00:51:02.000We've proposed solutions to all these, the housing market.
00:51:06.000And the good news is with this next story, it's pretty straightforward.
00:52:57.000It almost feels like it's on purpose because we're at a point in history where we have the highest technological advances, the smartest technology in the world.
00:53:05.000And yet, like you said, Gen Z is the dumbest generation.
00:55:24.000So we have dumber, fatter, sicker, mentally sicker, worse relationships, and less objectively, you can quantify less successful lives.
00:55:38.000Let's look at the three most important institutions in the formative years of a Gen Z American.
00:55:47.000And I will tell you, the common through line is leftism across the board.
00:55:52.000Anyone want to argue that big tech, media, the entertainment industry, and academia or public schools are a bastion of right-wing extremism.
00:56:24.000Let's start with teachers in education.
00:56:26.000Not only did they lobby for lockdowns, schools were closed longer than needed.
00:56:32.000And of course, they fought against right-wing extremists who said these will have this is going to have a ripple effect, the likes of which you can't even comprehend as far as the negative ramifications on this very show, meaning mental illness, meaning social, not just degeneracy, but socially stunted growth.
00:57:08.00084% of every dollar given from an educator goes directly to the Democrat Party.
00:57:14.00093% if you're talking about college professors.
00:57:17.000This is a study conducted, I believe, with over 400,000 donations because you'll see some polls that say, oh, only 58% versus 30 in education.
00:57:25.000When you look at the dollars, 84% of all dollars from those in education went to Democrats.
00:57:35.000Yale, 97%, just to give you with no GOP donations.
00:57:40.000Schools have more money than ever and they suck.
00:57:43.000Department of Education, depending on the numbers you use, $2 trillion to $3 trillion.
00:57:47.000It's become an indoctrination factory.
00:57:49.000Whatever it is that we're teaching these young people, it's making them dumber and they're mentally unwell.
00:57:58.000Teachers are the most important, most important profession because they're the ones molding your kids.
00:58:08.000Hey, anyone want to argue that media and the entertainment industry, something that touches every single life in America, is a bastion of right-wing conservatism?
00:58:17.000No, you know, the media has been pummeling Gen Z with every form of leftist propaganda you can imagine.
00:58:39.000It's meant to be a collective action to protest racism and police brutality.
00:58:44.000Organizers of Blackout Tuesday said they wanted today to be a day to disconnect from work and reconnect with our community.
00:58:50.000Calling the black squares your friends, families, businesses, and individuals posted on their social media accounts a way to observe, mourn, and bring about policy change in the wake of George Floyd's death.
01:02:24.000There is no metric that you can use to measure the success of this generation that will bring you to any objective conclusion other than leftist dominations of our institutions have failed or deliberately destroyed a generation of Americans.
01:03:46.000And you have the God-given right to self-preservation.
01:03:50.000I guess if that's misinformation, mission accomplished, left, because you have an entire generation of kids who believe the bullshit you sold.
01:04:14.000Took down people who spoke against lockdowns, took down doctors who posted any type of anti-vax, as they labeled it, content, meaning critical of an experimental mRNA injection at that point in time, including, like I said, doctors.
01:04:33.000You were banned if you actually said that we shouldn't have lockdowns for schools because kids weren't at risk.
01:04:40.000We were suspended from YouTube because we cited the CDC stats that COVID was a non-issue for young children, that it was less deadly than the flu, which is a verifiable fact, and it's not even close.
01:04:54.000We were banned because, well, we just don't want an environment where people live in anything other than abject fear of COVID.
01:05:02.000So you can't even argue that young people have been tainted by alternative viewpoints because many of them haven't.
01:05:10.000The ones that have are the ones who have better outcomes.
01:05:12.000Remember the day Alex Jones was banned from all major platforms?
01:05:15.000That was for the self-esteem of the kids.
01:05:18.000All social media platforms posted that blackout Tuesday in 2020.
01:05:24.000You want to look at the donations from big tech companies?
01:05:26.000They're not quite as bad as educators, but in 2024, Democrats, 40 million GOP was about 6.6 million.
01:05:32.000So you've got leftist big tech, leftist media, leftist entertainment industry, leftist, far left educational establishment.
01:05:43.000And everything they did was in the name of self-esteem.
01:06:02.000You could be getting your face kicked in by a bully, and if you push him off of you, you are treated the same and you're both suspended because we wanted to teach an entire generation of men having a spine and sticking up for yourself is a bad thing.
01:07:17.000I can tell you the moment I developed self-esteem, and I guarantee you every guy could tell you here as well.
01:07:22.000It was that moment where you realized, wait a second, I put in some work, I went through some hardships, and I'm better than the next person at this.
01:07:30.000You can't artificially create that with a fake score on a test, with a fake score on the points board, for kids, whatever the sport is.
01:07:42.000I don't know, I don't know the points in all the different sports.
01:07:44.000You can't do that by telling people, no, no, we're going to shield you from the world and you'll develop self-esteem.
01:07:50.000They never go through the process of developing it.
01:08:15.000But if we look just at the stats in that generation who've been indoctrinated, is there a statistical anomaly in Gen Z of people who are doing better than the rest?
01:08:27.000And would that indicate something notable?
01:08:31.000Conservative male teens have the lowest instance of mental illness of all groups in Gen Z.
01:08:40.000It's highest amongst leftist, self-identified liberal adolescent girls.
01:09:31.000The one group that was vilified, the one group that was left behind, you said, your exact words were, it's time for white men to get out, to sit down, take a seat.
01:09:45.000If what the left did worked, women, young women, would be thriving.
01:09:52.000If feminism worked, if the era of the woman, if boss babe, if you are perfect just the way you are and the world needs to change, if that worked, you'd see the exact opposite.
01:10:04.000Instead, you see the group that has been most empowered by these institutions across the board, young liberal women, miserable, and the men who were vilified as the cause of all ills in this country and really all of society in human history, conservative males, largely white, you see them doing better.
01:10:30.000They're not doing better because they've been served.
01:10:49.000When you push perpetual victimhood As the cause of everything wrong, and you tell young people, particularly young women, that it's stacked against you and it's all out of your control, and you try to ensure equity as opposed to equality.
01:11:11.000How do you motivate those people at all?
01:11:14.000What does that motivational parental speech look like?